69 Quotes by Lee H. Hamilton

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.